Contents

I. See Me, Help Me

The Limits of Merit and Choice
See Me, Help Me

 II. Strangers, Different Folk

III. When War?

IV. Never Again

V. Cassandra’s Tears

VI. Torture: A Fall From Grace

VII. On Muslim Americans & and Jihad, Too

VIII. The Late, Great Post Office? Implications for Health Care Reform?

IX. Darwinism After 150 Years

X. The Self-Indulgent Generation

XI. Exiting Afghanistan

XII. Financial & Banking Reform

XIII. America's Flagging Creativity

XIV. End Game: Pakistan & Its Taliban Strategy

XV. The Right: Agree with Us or You're Un-American;
The Economist: Phooey to the Right!

XVI. Healthcare & Cost Reduction, Market & Public Realities

XVII. On Public Goods: Providing Education & Healthcare

XVIII. Of Coal and Energy and Leadership:
China's Broadening Advance, America's Deepening Dysfunction 

XIX. On Opinion Formation & Change

XX. An Education Solution: Balanced, Year-Round Schooling

XXI. "Direct" Democracy's Erosion of Representative Democracy--and the Republic

XXII. American Dream Easier to Realize Elsewhere: The Failings of Education, Government Investment & Upward Mobility

XXIII. It Depends On What You Mean By "Free Will"--And What You Do With It

XXIV. Former Republicans & Their Republican Friends

XXV. America's Crisis of Democracy

© Gregory E. Hudson 2007, 2011
Naples, FL and East Greenwich, RI